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  • Is China really threatening to attack Australia with nuclear weapons?

    What is one to make of this? Furious China issues bone-chilling warning subs deal could ‘make Australia a potential target for a NUCLEAR strike’. Chinese state media has warned Australia will become a ‘potential target for a nuclear strike’ after it acquires nuclear-powered submarines. As part of a new three-way alliance with the UK and…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 18 Sept 2020

  • Mater’s Musings #27 – Don’t Catch Cancer

    According to their own website (which can be searched here), prior to the AstraZeneca vaccine receiving Provisional Approval on 9 Oct 2020 and since the introduction of this pathway for medications was established, it appears the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has only ever granted approval under this provision to Cancer Treatments (body, blood or lymph).…

  • Just because it never ever worked before is no reason not to try it again

    Both of these are about public spending as the road to economic growth, as in there is no such thing. GREAT MOMENTS IN CENTRAL PLANNING: Watch: Insane footage shows China blowing up 15 skyscrapers that had sat vacant for nearly a decade. Flashback: 34 Unforgettable Photos Of China’s Massive, Uninhabited Ghost Cities. Plus this. Amity Shlaes on Biden…

  • How accurate is this!

    This is at genius level. Meanwhile, on the front page of The Oz today are these. How to deter China from invading Taiwan And ‘Irresponsible’: China blasts nuclear subs deal in Australia, UK, US ‘forever partnership’ It’s a dangerous world out there and it’s not getting any safer.

  • Guest Post: Mem – Taking the piss out of cows

    I read yesterday in The Conversation, that we are to toilet train cows for the benefit of the environment. Now, I come off a farm where we ran 200 milking cows and a roll over of 200 fattening black angus vealers for the meat industry. These guys actually think that spending 15 hours per beast…

  • Guest Post: Cassie of Sydney – Jabba Dabba Doo

    There are many reasons why I love the Cat but perhaps the most important is that we have a forum where we can engage in robust and vociferous disagreements.  Here on the Cat there’s been a lot of debate about whether “to jab” or “not to jab”.  Whilst it’s a personal decision and I don’t care…

  • Mater’s Musings #26: “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows”

    Amongst the many, varied and wonderous symptoms of Covid-19, we see an aligning of opinion between myself and Waleed Aly. I assure you, truly unprecedented…another one racked up to the pandemic. Credit where credit is due. In my book, they don’t come much lower than Waleed. However, maybe, just maybe, he’s raised himself up onto…

  • Guest Post: MatrixTransform – Ask Your Doctor

    I tried some subtle questioning of medical types in my sphere. Some of them MDs, also a nurse, an Osteo, a Neurologist, and a Dentist. Almost every time I ask about this COV thing and try to root out actual numbers, all I get are anecdotes. Tall tales about how bad things are in London…

  • Guest Post: Muddy – Coerce and Comply

    I recently stumbled upon an intriguing historical document (source and link at provided at the end of post) that I believe has a loose parallel with the social and economic situation we now find ourselves trapped within. It consists of notes for a lecture on Communist Interrogation Methods by Royal Australian Air Force Intelligence, and…

  1. Newspoll. Coalition in front of Labor on two-party preferred basis as PM Anthony Albanese’s approval ratings fall in latest Newspoll…

  2. Scotty from Marketing, now in the Space Industry, a veritable ideas man in the manner of Elon. More like an…

  4. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu urges removal of UN peacekeepers from Lebanon, claiming they are ‘hostages of Hezbollah’ Benjamin Netanyahu has…

  5. And your daily chuckle comes courtesy of the Daily Telegraph: Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has joined the Board of…

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